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Tariq Ali & Alexander Cockburn: War and Taxes
September 17, 2010We've had a lot of talk this week about the Left: where is it? Why does the media ignore it? What can we do to rebuild it? And whose fault is any of this? The mainstream media might ignore voices from the Left, but here on GRITtv those are just the voices that matter--and today, we welcome two you may have heard of: Tariq Ali and Alexander Cockburn.Tariq Ali & Alexander Cockburn, and Mary Bottari
September 16, 2010We've had a lot of talk this week about the Left: where is it? Why does the media ignore it? What can we do to rebuild it? And whose fault is any of this? The mainstream media might ignore voices from the Left, but here on GRITtv those are just the voices that matter--and today, for a special feature, we welcome two you may have heard of: Tariq Ali and Alexander Cockburn.Patrick Hennessey: Forgetting Lessons of History
September 9, 2010Patrick Hennessey joined the British army in 2004 and served in Iraq and Afghanistan; along the way, he wrote an acclaimed book, The Junior Officers' Reading Club: Killing Time and Fighting Wars, detailing his experiences. He's since returned to Afghanistan as a reporter.Mike Papantonio, Patrick Hennessey, and Stopping Drilling
September 8, 2010The oil companies' conduct in the Gulf of Mexico are the "equivalent of getting drunk on a fifth of liquor, driving 80 miles an hour through a school zone and killing a child," says Mike Papantonio, Ring of Fire radio host and attorney representing Gulf residents in their lawsuit against BP. But despite such conduct, BP wants to keep drilling, claiming it'll cost jobs if they don't keep pumping out oil.The F Word: Winners and Losers in the UK Election
May 12, 2010For all his faults, I was struck by outgoing British Prime Minster Gordon Brown's resignation speech. It wasn't the pomp of the job he loved, he said, it was the chance to make his country a fairer place.Iraq: Truth & Reconciliation?
January 29, 2010In England, a committee is doing the kind of in-depth look at the runup to the Iraq war that we can only dream about here in the U.S. The Chilcot Inquiry is looking at the period from the summer of 2001 to the end of July 2009, the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, the war itself, and the ongoing issues.Citizens United, Iraq, and Howard Zinn
January 28, 2010Obama's State of the Union speech called for jobs, health care reform, and fighting the influence of corporations on our government processes, but after the past year, many progressives are skeptical that he'll actually fight. He did include a sharp critique in his speech of the decision of the Supreme Court in Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, a decision that Steve Cobble called an "intellectually dishonest power grab."
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